In Miserable Slavery: Thomas Thistlewood in Jamaica, 1750-86 by Douglas Hall

Author:Douglas Hall [Hall, Douglas]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: University of the West Indies Press
Published: 2012-01-25T07:00:00+00:00

The grey horse had attacked once before, and was to return next day when Thistlewood finally loaded his gun with a slug and shot to kill. Its owner was unknown.

‘Monday, 4th January 1768: Chub fishing. Flogged him for neglect & roguery.’

Not much else about Chub, except that in July he was matched with Sally; and in September he suffered a common complaint, the yaws.

Mirtilla, whose husband was driver Johnie at Egypt, was another of Thistlewood’s favourites. At the beginning of November 1767 he took her: ‘Sup. board and matted bed in Dick’s house’ and he took her four times more before Christmas 1768. She seems to have been allowed to remain on Egypt until mid-December 1767 when, on the 15th, she was sent home by Mr Hartnole with a note.

‘… she having been fighting with her husband, driver Johnie, at Egypt last night. Wrote to Mr Hartnole and [put] Mirtilla in the bilboes.’

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